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1 posted on 09/08/2016 12:45:52 PM PDT by simpson96
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Ben Hurl.


43 posted on 09/08/2016 1:27:50 PM PDT by IronJack
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Further proof that some movies just should not be remade.


44 posted on 09/08/2016 1:28:17 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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I thought Ben-Hur (1959)was long and boring so why do a remark when today’s remakes are crap


46 posted on 09/08/2016 1:31:30 PM PDT by butlerweave
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Row well and live 41


54 posted on 09/08/2016 2:06:49 PM PDT by KosmicKitty (Waiting for inspirations)
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If you are going to change a classic movie based on a classic book you need to change it to be more like the book not less.
59 posted on 09/08/2016 2:30:12 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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Looks like B-H will blow past Ghostbusters for biggest bust, sorry ladies no title for you.

GB has brought in 220 million world wide, it's pretty much dead at this point. It will be less than a million dollars take for this week. Production and marketing budget of about 270+ million. BUT the studios only get about 55 cents on the dollar for box office take. So they are netting only about 120 million of the box office. I highly doubt rentals will come anywhere close to making up the 150 million balance.

62 posted on 09/08/2016 3:17:09 PM PDT by DAC21
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Why a remake? The last version (a good one) is still fresh in the minds of mature movie goers; and, if millennials were interested in the subject matter they could watch that one. A remake would not, and apparently did not, attract them.


64 posted on 09/08/2016 3:55:05 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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I’ve heard it’s pretty decent, but I have a hard time getting past my ‘white privilege’ and paying Morgan Freeman for anything.


66 posted on 09/08/2016 4:24:20 PM PDT by 11th_VA (It's all gonna change once Trump's president)
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The money might have been better spent by restoring enhancing and the re-releasing the 1959 version. It was years after first seeing in in TV full screen that I finally saw it in the original CinemaScope 70mm format. The improvement was worth it.


67 posted on 09/08/2016 4:59:30 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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Why does CGI cost so much?
It is bits and bytes. Not bucks.


72 posted on 09/08/2016 5:48:51 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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“The ancient tale”?? The novel was written in 1880 by Lew Wallace


82 posted on 09/08/2016 10:04:59 PM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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Some movies simply do not need to be remade. Samuel Jackson needs to slow his roll as he has become very much over exposed and unwatchable. I will never watch a movie with him as I am tired of his same old schtick. His character is tired and been done too many times. He’s Pulp Fiction in every movie, even when he affects a different voice, cannot be a different character to save his life. Even his commercials are tiresome. Retire Mr Jackson, you’re done.


89 posted on 09/09/2016 6:48:55 PM PDT by slouper (LWRC SPR 5.56)
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